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Support communities resisting lithium mining in Central Portugal – respond to consultation by 4th September!
Image: The Alvarrões mine via Google EarthThe Alvarrões mine in Portugal, located on the foothills of the Serra da Estrela National Park and classified as Geopark and UNESCO...
Show support for anti-lithium activists under attack in Serbia
Photo: Balkan Green Energy News Savez ekoloških organizacija Srbije (SEOSYLNM calls for support for activists under threat Letter from European Regional Contact Person Recent...
Stop Extractivism Day of Action
International Coordination for Day of Action @stopextractivism Mining projects are spreading at an increasingly accelerated pace. Fueled by an economic system that preys on...
Camp in Defense of Barroso!
Join YLNM member Associacao Unidos em Defensa de Covas do Barroso for a summer of resistance Registrations now open linktr.ee/barrososemminas Where the company and the State dig...
Trial Date Announced: 8th July 2024 – Stop criminalisation of Protectors in Torobulu, Indonesia
Stop the criminalisation Co-sign this solidarity letter with the community of Torobulu before Jul 5, 2024 To the Indonesian authorities Environmental and human rights defenders...
The delusion of mining for the climate
Decades of ignoring the climate crisis has led to the now rapidly closing window to reverse the most devastating of its impacts. We must act rapidly. But industry and governments...
Abduction of Environmental Defenders Eco Dangla III and Joxelle “Jak” Tiong
Abduction and enforced disappearance Mass global call in support of the surfacing of two environmental defenders from the Philippines, Eco Dangla and Joxelle "Jak" Tiong We...
The greenwashing of lithium mining: trying to hide the damage
We replicate the journalistic article published by the newspaper El Ciudadano together with Fundación Tantí, via our YLNM member OPSAL. The extraction of this mineral is leaving...
New Tales from the Barroso Mountains
Authors: Mariana Riquito & João da Montanha ___ The sunlight bids farewell to the mountains. The clouds hang in a sky tinged with pink and purple. The birds fly in flocks,...
Declaración de solidaridad con la lucha decolonial del pueblo palestino
Nosotros, Sí a la Vida No a la Minería y los demás participantes abajo firmantes del Segundo Foro Social Temático sobre Minería y Extractivismo, expresamos nuestra solidaridad incondicional con el pueblo de Palestina.
Pernyataan Dukungan terhadap Perjuangan Dekolonialisasi Palestina
Kami, “Yes to Life No to Mining” dan para peserta lain yang menandatangani pernyataan ini dalam Forum Sosial Tematik Kedua tentang Pertambangan dan Ekstraktivisme, menyatakan solidaritas tanpa syarat dengan rakyat Palestina.
Stand with Palestine
We, Yes to Life No to Mining and the other undersigned participants of the Second Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivism, express our unconditional solidarity with the people of Palestine. Sign on to the YLNM Statment in Solidarity with Palestine.